Wearing-apparel.



M. W. TURNER.

WEARING APPAREL.

APPLICATION FILED JAY-3,1916.

Patented Oct. 15, 1918.

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MAURICE W. TEE, 0F BROOKLINE, MASSACHUSETTS.

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Be it known that I, MAURICE W. TURNER, a citizen of the United States, residing at Brookline, in the county of Norfolk and State of Massachusetts, have invented new and useful Improvements in Wearing-Apparel, of which the following is a specification.

, This invention relates to improvements in wearing apparel and has for its object to provide a simple and convenient apparel suitable either for winter or summer use, but particularly adapted for use in hot weather and having a chest or bosom covering preferably constituting a shirt, detachably connected with a coat, permitting the coat and shirtto be put on or taken oil simultaneously and resulting in a substantial saving in material, and also adding greatly to the comfort of the wearer for the reason that the back and sleeve portions of the shirt may be dispensed with. v

Furthermore it will be understood that the wearing apparel forming the subject matter of this invention is particularly adapted to be used in hot weather and to satisfy all the conventional requirements relating to a mans apparel. It is well known, serious objections are made to men appearing in public places, such as dining rooms in hotels, in their shirt sleeves in hot weather, and the device of this invention enables a man to be clothed in a coat and still be as cool as though he had left his coat 0E and wore the ordinary shirt with a front back and sleeves. I

Another object of the invention is to provide a simple and convenient means for attaching "cufls to the sleeves of the coat.

The invention consists in the combination and arrangement of parts set forth in the following specification and particularly pointed out in the claim.

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Specification of Letters Patent.

Patented @ct. 15, 1%18.

Application filed January 3, 1916, Serial No. 69,762.

Like numerals refer to like parts throughout the several views of the drawings.

In the drawings, 6 is a coat and 7 the chest or bosom covering, preferably a shirt which embodies in its construction a front or bosom portion 8, a shoulder portion 9, collar 10 attached to said shoulder and front portions, and a skirt portion 11 forming a continuation of the bosom 8. An opening 12 is provided for the shirt 7 and is preferably co-extensive with the collar, bosom and skirt portions thereof, thereby forming what isknown as a coat shirt.

Fastening means, preferably buttons, 13, are arranged along the edges of the front opening 12, whereby said opening may be closed. The collar band 10 is shown in the drawings, merely as a band of the conventional type to which a collar is adapted to be secured by collar buttons, although it is not the intention to limit the invention to this particular form of collar band as any type of neck piece may be employed without departing from the spirit and the scope of the invention.

The shirt 7 is of a width sufiicient to amply cover the bosom or chest portion ofthe wearer and it has at its edges means for attaching thesame to the coat 6, said means preferably, though not essentially, consisting of button holes and buttons, 14' and 15, arranged along the edges of the bosom and shoulder portions respectively of said shirt with cooperating buttons and button holes 16 and 17 arranged inside of the coat 6 at a substantial distance from the front meeting edges of said coat and approximately alongthe axillary line of said coat so as to properly positionthe shirt with respect to said coat when said shirt and coat are placed upon the person.

' The skirt 11 of the shirt is adapted to be tucked into the trousers beneath the belt thereof so as to retain the bosom smooth. In case it is desired to Wear suspenders with the device in addition to or in placeof the belt 1 8, openings 19, 19 have been provided at suitable points in the shirt 8 at the waist portion thereof through which the ends of the suspenders may be passed so as to permit said suspenders to be buttoned to the inside of the waist band of the-trousers. With a shirt constructed in accordance with the above, a large amount of cloth will be dispensed with; all of the material, which tion to aline with the button holes 23 would in the ordinary form of shirt, constitute the back and the sleeves may be eliminated, but in so doing the ordinary or usual method of securing cufls would not be possible; therefore, a tongue 20 of any suitable material, preferably cloth, is provided in each sleeve 21 of the coat and at a suitable distance from the edge 22 thereof, in a pcsio a cufi 24 which is arranged within said sleeve, said tongue 20 having a button hole 25 at the end thereof adapted to receive a button 26 located in the button hole 23 of said cufi. The tongue 20 is attached inside said sleeve 21 in any suitable manner such as by stitch- To apply an apparel embodying this invention, the shirt 8 is buttoned or attached to the coat along the sides of the bosom portion and the edge of the shoulder portion before the coat and shirt are put on, and with the opening 12 unfastened, the coat and shirt are applied, after which said opening is closed by means of the buttons 13 and the skirt 11 tucked into the trousers. The fastening or attaching means by which the skirt is attached to the coat preferably terminates at the waist portion thereof so as not to interfere with the tucking of said skirt portion of the shirt into the trousers.

It will be understood that first the size and shape of the shirt part of this invention, including the bosom, and the location of the points of attachment to the coat part are so placed and arranged that the appearance, effect and comfort of two separate garments is preserved, with the added comfort of coolness; second, the attachment of the shirt and coat, by buttons and button-holes, at the sides, being approximately along the axillary line, gives freedom of the arms, and as full access to an inside pocket as if'the coat and shirt were two separate garments; third, the extension below the neck band at the back and over the shoulders, and its attachment to the coat, by buttons and buttonholes, under the coat collar gives stability to the shirt at these points, and to the neck band of the shirt, and consequently a collar attached thereto, is kept in place, the whole garment being as comfortable as the ordinary full shirt and coat would be, while at the same time being much cooler.

Having thus specifically described my invention what I claim and desire by Letters Patent to secure is:

A two-part garment consisting of a coat and a shirt, said shirt comprising a front and a band forming a shoulder portion extending across the back of said coat, said shirt front terminating along its opposite edges in close proximity to the axillary lines of said coat and provided with a vertical opening, means for closing said opening, means for detachably attaching the opposite edges of said shirt front to said coat adjacent to the axillary lines thereof and means for attaching said shoulder portion of said shirt to the shoulder and back portions of said coat.

In testimony whereof I have hereunto set my hand in presence of two subscribing witnesses.

MA'UsIoE w. TURNER.

Witnesses: SYDNEY E. Tm, ANNIE J. DAlLEY. 

